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Bird in a Blender posted:It’s a coup? That article made it out like parliament just had a vote of no confidence and they need new elections to elect a new government. I didn’t see a thing about a coup. Per Reuters: quote:The voting came after the country's powerful army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa met Khan, two sources said, as criticism mounted over the delay in the parliamentary process.
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It’s not a military coup, although Pakistan leads the world in military coups over the past 60 yrs
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Apr 9, 2022 22:01
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Pron on VHS posted:It’s not a military coup, although Pakistan leads the world in military coups over the past 60 yrs Are we talking own government only, because as always USA is #1 baby!
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Pain of Mind posted:I always wonder where people who just vanish from here go... do they... just not browse the internet? I don't have anyone specific in mind, but every now and then I find a few year old thread and in it is someone who posts 10 times a day and then they just stop overnight. Did they die in a car crash? Are there shadow bans that are not reported? What happened? I quit posting for five years or so because GIP was getting extremely toxic and I was further and further away from my time in uniform ( I think I remember realizing I had been out of the military twice as long as I had ever been in), I missed TFF a bit but in general I just wanted to get on with life. Went to college, changed careers, found other poo poo to do. I think of all things, I came back because I wanted to get AI advice on a new car purchase
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Apr 9, 2022 23:02
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Watching hell or high water and boy this movie isn’t subtle is it
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For an erotic thriller, Deep Water isn’t especially erotic or thrilling, but it sure is funny.
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FizFashizzle posted:Watching hell or high water and boy this movie isn’t subtle is it Tyalor Sheridan has the subtly of a housebrick to the face but in terms of just telling a good story about dudes doing the right thing according to their moral code he's a beast. I'm not going to extol his messages or his abilities as a writer / director but in terms of what he makes he does it extremely well imo. His modern day westerns for the sake of making modern day westerns after growing up watching spaghetti westerns... I'm all for it. General Dog posted:Just seems weird that everyone’s brain damage manifested in the form of posting Minions memes on Facebook, watching Fox News, and voting for tax cuts. I legitimately blame the cult like behaviour caused by social media combined with another theory that would probably get me shot when it comes to the type of person who goes into politics.
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FizFashizzle posted:Watching hell or high water and boy this movie isn’t subtle is it Subtlety is lame. I loved that movie. Only part I didn’t enjoy was that the casino trip lasted too long and seemed like filler to make the brother seem even more of an rear end in a top hat.
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Ornery and Hornery posted:Subtlety is lame. I still think Ben Foster is one of the best actors in Hollywood and I think one day he'll get a statue
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 Worked an after hours shift since I'm saving up for a vacation and new phone and walked in on my cats planning some serious cat business in our back room.
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BlindSite posted:I still think Ben Foster is one of the best actors in Hollywood and I think one day he'll get a statue He's incredible in the remake of 3:10 to Yuma.
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Apr 10, 2022 03:04
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I remember everyone hating John Q because of how not subtle it was. It's still the most accurate movie about how hosed up our health care system is.
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If we're talking ocean based erotic thrillers, Dead Calm is always my number one for that. Billy Zane is good in it and it just works for me.
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Ornery and Hornery posted:Subtlety is lame. Only assholes drink Mr. Pibb.
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Tulalip Tulips posted:If we're talking ocean based erotic thrillers, Dead Calm is always my number one for that. Billy Zane is good in it and it just works for me. Lol, I love Billy Zane but come on, do not get on a boat with that man! Rescue or not them’s some crazy eyes, I want at least 2 exit options at all time when with him
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I watched that movie with the Weasley brother and that pretty lady from Sherlock Holmes and Bill nighy about time travel but the poster looks like a lovely romcom and goddamnit. What a wonderful movie.
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BlindSite posted:I watched that movie with the Weasley brother and that pretty lady from Sherlock Holmes and Bill nighy about time travel but the poster looks like a lovely romcom and goddamnit. What a wonderful movie. It may absolutely a romcom, but it’s a good movie. (movie is About Time if anybody was wondering)
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Isn't About Time the time rape movie? Like, the lead's girlfriend doesn't love him so he goes back in time to make her love him?
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Timby posted:Isn't About Time the time rape movie? Like, the lead's girlfriend doesn't love him so he goes back in time to make her love him? He wiffs on a double date to chase after a lady he's lusting after and misses out on a chance at love that he fixes. It's a long way from rape.
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Thaddius the Large posted:Lol, I love Billy Zane but come on, do not get on a boat with that man! Rescue or not them’s some crazy eyes, I want at least 2 exit options at all time when with him Now I'm imagining Billy Zane doing the "because of the implication" scene from It's Always Sunny.
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BlindSite posted:He wiffs on a double date to chase after a lady he's lusting after and misses out on a chance at love that he fixes. It's a long way from rape. This is tangential to that point, but I remember watching the movie and always expecting a shoe to drop where his wife starts to question why everything in their life always seems to work out perfectly, and for his meticulous orchestration of every milestone in their lives (he essentially save-scums through their courtship and marriage) to backfire to some extent. Not necessarily to the extent that it ends the relationship, but at least to the point where he learns some lesson about, I don't know, spontaneity or "letting life come to you", something. Like, there's a moment maybe midway through the movie where they have their wedding outside and it ends up raining and everyone gets soaked, but everyone still seems to have a really fun, memorable time. It's something that's going to make for a great story for the rest of their lives. He goes back and changes their plans to an indoor venue. It's still a nice wedding, but the rainy wedding is a fun, unpredictable moment that he gets to remember but that he's effectively robbed his wife and everyone else of. It's the kind of scene that you would expect to hint that the movie has some sort of point to make a little further down the road, but it really doesn't. You do have the bit at the end where his father tells him how he's personally utilized this ability, and the main character seems to take it to heart, but at the same time there's never really any recognition that he's been doing it "wrong", per se, or that he's taken away anything from his wife or anyone else in the process. General Dog fucked around with this message at 05:22 on Apr 10, 2022 |
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General Dog posted:This is tangential to that point, but I remember watching the movie and always expecting a shoe to drop where his wife starts to question why everything in their life always seems to work out perfectly, and for his meticulous orchestration of every milestone in their lives (he essentially save-scums through their courtship and marriage) to backfire to some extent. Not necessarily to the extent that it ends the relationship, but at least to the point where he learns some lesson about, I don't know, spontaneity or "letting life come to you", something. Yeah you're right, there's never an actual or large comeuppance for his behaviour, at least in that regard and they could have gone down that road and I agree with you on the wedding scene. I know some of the best times I've had have been as a result of unplanned bad poo poo happening turning into a different kind of good time but I can't hate the movie for not wanting to go on that tangent. I've always been a believer in fun being of a couple of different qualities like a roller coaster is low quality fun, its great when you're in it but 20 minutes later you've forgotten, but like say camping in the rain with your friends and huddling by a dwindling fire drinking whiskey is the kind of fun that has degrees to it at the time but you remember it for decades after. I know the movie has some questionable ethics but I'll still stan for it overall.
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Yeah, and despite all that I find it to be quite a fun, pleasant movie. It just surprised me in that it had lots of pieces that felt like they were building up to making some sort of point before just going “well, that’s all folks, we all had fun didn’t we?” And, yeah, I did have fun. And as far as actual ethics, I’m not going to worry too much about Sending the Wrong Messages about time travel.
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Just finished Turning Red. Pixar post-2010 feels like one of those aging rock bands where nearly every album release is critically praised as a “return to form” before being nearly instantly forgotten.
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General Dog posted:Just finished Turning Red. Pixar post-2010 feels like one of those aging rock bands where nearly every album release is critically praised as a “return to form” before being nearly instantly forgotten. Considering their last 2 movies were Onward and Luca, which were both extremely mediocre, Turning Red was very much a return to form.
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seiferguy posted:Considering their last 2 movies were Onward and Luca, which were both extremely mediocre, Turning Red was very much a return to form. Soul was sandwiched in between Onward and Luca, and I really do think that’s their best in a while. I think in a vacuum Soul and Inside Out are probably about as good as some of Pixar’s golden-age output, but taken together with the rest of Pixar’s oeuvre, both feel a bit derivative. I’m aware that’s a wild thing to say about two movies dealing cleverly with such abstract concepts with a fair amount of nuance, but tell me I’m wrong. It feels like it’s always “what concept will Pixar literalize this time to teach the lesson that it’s actually okay that life hasn’t worked out the way you hoped it would?”
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Turning Red was decent, though. It’s not fair to compare it to PEN15, but for a variety of reasons it’s hard not to.
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Luca > Turning Red, but my 5yo just wants to watch “Red Panda” constantly these days. She gets mad when I laugh at the merman drawing every time.
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I liked Turning Red a lot but part of it is because it really did a great job, in my opinion, of capturing what it's like to be a middle school age girl who's discovering boys and is in a fandom. The drawings really gave me a hard core flashback to being about the same age and drawing my dumb favorite characters or actors/actresses kissing each other and writing super embarrassing fanfiction. Also the discussion about periods was good and it really is something that isn't done in a lot of "family friendly" cartoons so I will always consider that a plus. It's not ground breaking or anything particularly new but it does what it does very, very well and I appreciated it. I'm pushing through ZZ Gundam and the back half is just insane all the way.
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It's Time To Ruin Judeau Ashta's Life
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Lets murder or try to murder every one Judau likes or cares about but somehow Beecha comes through unscathed? Okay ZZ Gundam.
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The main character from Turning Red is almost exactly my and my wife's ages, based on the plot structure of her turning 13 in 2002, and that scares me a little. Also the gag where she does a Tex Avery wolf "A-WOOOOO-GA" to her 7-11 clerk crush is very good.
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I forget if I said this here but I give Turning Red props for featuring an Asian American main character (and much of the cast) and not having them live in San Francisco.
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Tulalip Tulips posted:Lets murder or try to murder every one Judau likes or cares about but somehow Beecha comes through unscathed? Okay ZZ Gundam. That’s Tomino.
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I watched a documentary about Kurt Vonnegut on Hulu last night and that had me remembering all my time spent reading him in high school and college. Probably time I went back and reread a bunch. I read cat’s cradle a couple years back and it’s still great. I had read nearly everything he wrote, but it’s been so long that I’ve completely forgotten what some of them are about. Some of his later books tend to run together I feel. The documentary was good, and taught me all about his younger years and just starting out that I didn’t really know much about.
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Onward might be the most forgettable Pixar’s movie. I don’t think there’s much bad about it, but it leaves your head really quickly
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Tulalip Tulips posted:I'm pushing through ZZ Gundam and the back half is just insane all the way. I really need to finish watching Z Gundam one of these days so I can finally get around to ZZ Gundam. FizFashizzle posted:https://twitter.com/ratemysalad/status/1513120142342897669?s=21&t=lzs2OLuQZGf7MCsz4z6eEA lmao
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Shinji2015 posted:I really need to finish watching Z Gundam one of these days so I can finally get around to ZZ Gundam. Zeta is one of my favorites and the last bit is classic Tomino going full into his Kill ‘Em All nickname. Just make sure you watch the original series from ‘85 and not the compilation movies from the mid-00s. The latter cut out a ton, the attempts to add modern animation is jarring, and completely changes the ending.
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